Regional Integration and Tradehttp://hdl.handle.net/10855/225752019-05-25T14:44:19Z2019-05-25T14:44:19Z2061Assessing the status of regional integration in Africahttp://hdl.handle.net/10855/417382019-03-21T13:58:11Z2019-03-01T00:00:00ZAssessing the status of regional integration in Africa
Regional economic communities continue to be the main building blocks of the African Union, as envisioned in the 1980 Lagos Plan of Action for the Economic Development of Africa (1980–2000) and the Treaty establishing the African Economic Community (Abuja Treaty). The key objective of regional economic communities is to facilitate regional integration and cooperation through various activities and programs, which has culminated in the establishment of the African Economic Community. Africa, in general, has registered remarkable progress in various dimensions and aspects of regional integration. Arguably, the historic signing of the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area at Kigali in 2018 was the greatest achievement in the integration efforts of the continent in recent years. Despite the establishment of the Free Trade Area, however, a number of impediments to regional integration continue to linger, including an infrastructure deficit, low levels of macroeconomic convergence and continued threats to peace and security. The present document contains an assessment of the current trends in regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on progress in the areas of macroeconomic convergence; trade, investment and market integration; free movement of persons; infrastructure, including for landlocked countries within the framework of the Vienna declaration and program of action; governance, peace and security; and mining.
2019-03-01T00:00:00ZRapport sur l’appui du système des Nations Unies à l’Union africaine et au Nouveau Partenariat pour le développement de l’Afriquehttp://hdl.handle.net/10855/417602019-03-27T13:57:03Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZRapport sur l’appui du système des Nations Unies à l’Union africaine et au Nouveau Partenariat pour le développement de l’Afrique
Le présent rapport fait un résumé de l’appui qu’ont apporté, les organismes du système des Nations Unies opérant en Afrique à l’Union africaine et au Nouveau Partenariat pour le développement de l’Afrique (NEPAD), en passe
de devenir l’Agence de développement de l’Union africaine, sur la période d’avril 2018 à janvier 2019. Il porte sur l’appui à la mise en œuvre des priorités de l’Union africaine aux niveaux régional et sous-régional, y compris les priorités définies dans l’Agenda 2063 de l’Union africaine et le Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030. À cet égard, il donne un aperçu de l’assistance fournie par l’intermédiaire du Mécanisme de coordination régionale
pour l’Afrique (MCR-Afrique) dans le cadre du Partenariat renouvelé entre l’Union africaine et l’ONU sur l’intégration et le développement de l’Afrique (PAIDA). Il fait également une présentation sommaire de l’appui de la Commission économique pour l’Afrique (CEA) à la mise en œuvre du Mécanisme africain d’évaluation par les pairs, et de certaines décisions prises par l’Union africaine au titre du programme d’infrastructure de son Agence de développement.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZRapport sur l’état d’avancement des travaux de l’Institut africain de développement économique et de planificationhttp://hdl.handle.net/10855/417612019-03-27T13:57:07Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZRapport sur l’état d’avancement des travaux de l’Institut africain de développement économique et de planification
Le présent rapport est soumis pour examen à la Conférence des ministres africains des finances, de la planification et du développement économique de la Commission économique pour l’Afrique (CEA), conformément au souhait exprimé par la Conférence d’être régulièrement tenue informée des rapports que l’Institut africain de développement économique et de planification (IDEP) soumet à son Conseil ’administration et à sa direction . Récapitulant les travaux menés d’avril 2018 à mars 2019, il se focalise sur les principales activités exécutées par l’IDEP dans le cadre de son mandat principal qui consiste à assurer la formation des cadres chargés de la gestion économique et de la planification du développement au sein
des États membres.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZA technical assessment of the African Continental Free Trade Area modalities on goodshttp://hdl.handle.net/10855/417972019-03-27T13:58:07Z2018-01-01T00:00:00ZA technical assessment of the African Continental Free Trade Area modalities on goods
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) recently conducted a new economic modelling analysis to assess the implications of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on African economies. The assessment is based on realistic scenarios in terms of the liberalization of trade in goods implied by the reform. These scenarios were designed using the liberalization schedule agreed under the AfCFTA negotiations to date, two distinct liberalization approaches (tariff line approach versus double qualification approach) and three proposed and easily implementable options based on specific criteria to rank products from the most import-sensitive to the least import-sensitive by countries or regions.
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Tripartite Free Trade Area and the African Continental Free Trade Area:|b the Case for Consolidationhttp://hdl.handle.net/10855/418412019-04-11T13:58:08Z2018-11-01T00:00:00ZThe Tripartite Free Trade Area and the African Continental Free Trade Area:|b the Case for Consolidation
The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) agreement, bringing together twenty-six member and partner states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was signed by the third tripartite summit in the resort town of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Five days after the TFTA signing, the African Union (AU) summit of heads of state and government launched negotiations for the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), subsequently renamed African Continental Free Trade Area, (AfCFTA). These negotiations were to encompass 54 African Union member states. Both of these initiatives were aimed at rationalizing multiple memberships of African countries in regional economic communities, for integration purposes as well as for consolidating market potential. In the case of TFTA, this was to be achieved by creating a free trade area bringing COMESA, EAC and SADC together in a market with a population of 632 million people and a combined GDP of $1.3 trillion; in the case of AfCFTA, by creating a continent-wide market of 1.2 billion people and a continental GDP of $2.3 trillion. This policy brief reviews the salient provisions in the TFTA and AfCFTA agreements. It will become clear that a number of elements are duplicated in the two agreements. We argue that a road map for effective transition of all FTAs on the continent into AfCFTA is urgently required. This policy brief is divided into three sections. The first briefly revisits the decision of the African Union assembly to consolidate FTAs into AfCFTA. The second highlights a number of similarities in the legal structure of the TFTA and the AfCFTA agreements. The third concludes with the argument on the need for consolidation.
2018-11-01T00:00:00ZAn empirical assessment of the African Continental Free Trade Area modalities on goodshttp://hdl.handle.net/10855/418282019-04-12T13:57:39Z2018-11-01T00:00:00ZAn empirical assessment of the African Continental Free Trade Area modalities on goods
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) recently conducted a new economic modelling analysis to assess the implications of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) modalities on trade in goods on African economies. The assessment is based on realistic scenarios in terms of the liberalization of trade in goods implied by the reform. These scenarios were designed using the liberalization schedule agreed under the AfCFTA negotiations to date, two distinct liberalization approaches (tariff line approach versus double qualification approach) and three proposed and easily implementable options based on specific criteria to rank products from the most import-sensitive to the least import sensitive by countries or regions.
2018-11-01T00:00:00Z